Supplying Quality: One Strain at a Time

Supplying Quality: One Strain at a Time

In the large-scale liquid bacterial fermentation world, there are two primary ways to grow bacteria: as individual strains or in combination with others. At Microbial Discovery Group, we grow one strain at a time as it has served us well over the past decade. Truth be...
2B or Not 2B? Success Criteria for Economical Bacillus Scale-Up

2B or Not 2B? Success Criteria for Economical Bacillus Scale-Up

Typically, one of the first questions a contract fermentation customer will ask us is how quickly we can get them to economical commercial production. From our years of experience, we commonly find that if the customer can get 2 Billion CFU/ml (2B) in a standard media...
Two Big Reasons You Need Our Small Spray Dryer

Two Big Reasons You Need Our Small Spray Dryer

Throughout a facility tour at MDG you’ll walk past different sizes of the same equipment, one example, specifically of interest to many plant companies, is the 6-foot pilot spray dryer that stares up at a 34-foot electric production spray dryer. Flexibility in spray...
Processing Probiotic Cultures

Processing Probiotic Cultures

At MDG, we make Bacillus cultures and products for a range of industries, including food. When it comes to serving our customers in this industry, specifically those manufacturing probiotics for human gut health, they often ask how we keep their cultures separate from...
Good Things Always Happen in 3’s

Good Things Always Happen in 3’s

Well, ok, that’s not exactly how the saying goes, but this modified version seems fitting. Recently, MDG received its third centrifuge to match its three fermentors already in operation. This R2D2 looking device might sound boring, but it’s an essential piece of our...